Corset



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CORSET.

No. 429,542. Patented June 3.. 1890.

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TATLES GEORGE D. NICHOLS, OF NEW CANAAN, CONNECTICUT.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,542, dated June -3, 1890. Application filed January 27,1890- Serial No. 338,177. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. Nionons, of New Canaan, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a rear view of a center lace-back corset. Fig. 2, a transverse section of the lacing-edges enlarged; Fig. 3, the two steels detached; Fig. 4., an edge view of the steels, showing the outward and inward curve to be produced; Figs. 5 and 6, a rear view and a section of the invention as applied to a solid-back corset.

This invention relates to an improvement in corsets, having special reference to the lacing portions.

In the more general construction ofcorsets the lacing-edges are made substantially straight and provided with a stay at the edge, back of which stay eyelets are introduced through the fabric. In some cases the edges of the corset are curved; but generally the edges are separated at diffent distances, according to the expansion or varying shape of the wearer. In any case the edges are easily drawn out of their original shape, and do not give to the body of the wearer the desirable forced shape.

The-object of my invention is to construct the lacing-edges so that they will be substantially parallel with each other throughout the length and be so firm and strong as to give the requisite support and shape to the body.

To this end the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

In the first illustration of my invention I show it as applied to a corset which laces directly up the center back.

A B, Fig. 3, represent the two back or lacing stays detached. These stays are made of steel or other suitable metal and have considerable breadth as compared with the stays usually employed-that is to say, about one inch in wi.dthand they are of a length to extend from bottom to top of the corset. These stays are made of ogee shape transversely, their adjacent edges presenting a concave shape through their upper portion toward each other, the concave shape running into a reverse or convex shape through the lower portion, and so that if the two edges of the steels thus curved be brought close together an outward and inward curve will be given to these stays, as seen in Fig. 4, this outward andinward curve corresponding to the curve of the back of the body of the wearer, and such as all steels placed in this position must assume in order to fit the -manner, and as the lacings are drawn taut the oppositely-curved edges are brought together, so as to present substantially a straight line, as seen in Fig. 1, giving to the back an outward and inward curve, as seen in Fig. 4, corresponding to the desired shape for the back.

The two stays, it will be observed, are

alike, except that they are turned from each other in opposite directions, so that the two stays alike are made rights and lofts by turning one the inside out with relation to the other.

In the case of a solid-back corset, as seen in Figs. 5 and 6, the same construction is applied, the curved steels being arranged in the two edges of the back, the stays and fabric being perforated, and eyelets inserted in the same manner as first described.

I claim A corset the meeting edges of which are adapted to be secured by laces, each of said edges constructed with vertical pockets, combined with steels in said pockets, the said through the said pockets and through said steels of ogee shape transversely, the adjasteels, substantially as described.

cent edges of the upper portion presenting 1 T A a concave shape toward each other, said 0011- GBJORGE LIOHOLS' cave shape of the upper portion running into I \Vitnesses:

a reverse or convex shape through the lower FRED C. EARLE,

portion, with a series of eyelets introduced I J. H. SHUMWAY. 

